Generation Leadership Quotes

Asking Discerning Questions

The important thing is not to stop questioning Never lose a holy curiosity. - Albert Einstein Curiosity is one of the permanent and certain characteristics of a rigorous intellect. - Samuel Johnson He that cannot ask cannot live. Always the beautiful answer who asks a more beautiful question. - E. E. Cummings He who asks the questions cannot avoid the answers. - Cameroon Proverb All our knowledge comes from questions, which is another way of saying that question-asking is our most important intellectual tool. - Neil Postman He that questioneth much shall learn much. - Sir Francis Bacon Blessed are the skilled questioners, for they shall be given mountains of words to ascend; Blessed are the wise questioners, for they shall unlock the hidden corridors of knowledge; Blessed are the listening questioners, for they shall gain perspective.

Seeing with New Eyes

Many have original minds who do not think it they are led away by custom. - John Keats The significant problems we face cannot be solved at the same level of thinking we were at when we created them. - Albert Einstein The ever-alert, the conscientiously wakeful how many fine things they fail to see! - Norman Douglas A thought is often original, though you have uttered it a hundred times. - Oliver Wendall Holmes -

A moments insight is sometimes worth a lifes experience. - Oliver Wendall Holmes Vision is the art of seeing things invisible. - Swift The question is not what we look at, but what we see. The real art of discovery consists not in finding new lands but in seeing with new eyes. - Marcel Proust What is now proved was once only imagind. - William Blake You cannot discover new oceans until you have the courage to lose sight of the shore. Captain Jean-Luc Picard: Commander, have you been able to determine the cause of the warp breach? Lt. Cmdr. Geordi LaForge: No, sir. Everything was normal, and then, suddenly, its like the laws of physics went right out the window. Q: And why shouldnt they? Theyre so inconvenient. Do not go where the path may lead go instead where there is not a path and leave a trail. Unlearn what you have learned. -YodaTaste it again for the first time. - Kellogs Corn Flakes

Building Creative Solutions

Once one definitely commits oneself to action, providence moves too. Together, ordinary people can perform extraordinary feats. They can lift things that come into their hands a little higher, a little further on towards the heights of excellence. Far better it is to dare mighty things, to win glorious triumphs, even though checkered by failure, than to take rank with those poor souls who neither win much nor suffer much and live in that grey twilight that knows not victory nor defeat. - T. Roosevelt Some men see things as they are and ask Why? I dream of things as they could be and ask Why not? - George Bernard Shaw If you have built castles in the air, your work need not be lost now put foundation under them. - Thoreau Whatever you think you can do or dream you can do, begin it. Boldness has genius, power, and magic in it. - Goethe -

Miscellaneous
Do or do not. There is no try. - Yoda A journey of a thousand miles begins with a single step. Tomorrow belongs to those who prepare for it today. - Malcolm X When you have hit the wall: go around it, go under it, go over it, go through it, but never never stop. The final test of a true leader is that he leaves behind him in his men the conviction and the will to carry on. Small deeds done are better than great deeds planned. - Peter Marshall If I try, knowing that there is little hope of success, I risk failure. Not to try assures it. There is no such thing as a great person, only great challenges which ordinary people rise to meet. Instead of counting your time, make your time count. - Jonathans fortune cookie If you accept the role of a leader, you also have to step up and be heard when you make a mistake. The difficult we do immediately. The impossible takes just a little longer. - U.S. Army Slogan, WWII To a healthy mind, the world is a constant challenge of opportunities. - Lowell Triumph is to try with some umph! TEAM: Together Everyone Achieves More You must dare yourself to be great. - Coach Lockbalm, Richmond High School If you can dream it, you can achieve it. - Terry Fox Coming together is the beginning. Keeping together is progress. Working together is success! - Henry Ford Vision is a mental journey from the known to the unknown, creating the future from a montage of current facts, hopes, dreams, dangers, and opportunities. The leaders job is to create a vision. Wisdom is knowing what to do next, skill is knowing how to do it, and virtue is doing it. - David Jordan A good leader takes a little more than his share of the blame, and a little less of his share of the credit. - A. Glasow -

Show me a person who has never made a mistake and Ill show you a person who has never achieved much. - Joan Collins Some people make things happen, some people see things happen, some people say, What happened? In dreams begin responsibility. - William Butler Yeats To whom much is given, much is required. What you do speaks so loudly, I cannot hear what you say. In the middle of every difficulty lies opportunity. - Albert Einstein Whether you think you can or you cant, you are right! - Henry Ford If you dont know where youre going, youll end up somewhere else. - Alice in Wonderland Progress involves risk: you cant steal second base and keep your foot on first. If you really want something, youll find a way; if you dont, youll find an excuse. Our greatest weakness is in giving up. The most certain way to succeed is always to try just one more time. - Thomas Edison Working together, ordinary people can perform extraordinary feats. They can lift things that come into their hands a little higher, a little further on toward the heights of excellence. No one cares how much you know, until they know how much you care. Nothing great was ever achieved without enthusiasm. - Ralph Waldo Emerson -